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...body; he lost the power of articulate speech. Then some fishermen discovered him. They thought that he was a strange breed of polar ape. He was clapped into a cage, taken back to Germany, sold to a dime museum. A Professor Barbazin suspects that there is a human spark beneath the coat of fur, so he buys Captain Ramper. Speech and sanity are restored by shrewd operations; fur is shaved off electrically; and Captain Ramper becomes a man again, a popular hero. But the hurly-burly life of urban man disturbs him so much that he denounces civilization, returns...
...Labor to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called Conscience," recommended George Washington to his successors at the close of his public career. This advice found its correlative yesterday afternoon in the text chosen for the Baccalaureate Sermon to the graduating class in Appleton Chapel, the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, "if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness." But President Lowell made opening acknowledgement of the verity that what seems right at one time and meets the apparent approval of the conscience, "the light...
...many men were killed, how many trapped and perhaps dying slowly, it was impossible to tell. Perhaps 200 men had been in the workings when some improbable spark ignited the lurking mine gas. Rescuers pressed in, passing by corpses, to look for survivors, carrying canaries to test the air. At the shaft mouths, miners' families waited in silence. A score of bodies were taken out, then a dozen more. Rescued men told their stories. The neighborhood and the industry mourned, condoled, tried to forget...
Kemal was, of course, the second husband of Halide Edib. She perhaps kindled the first elemental spark of his present passion for Occidentalizing Turkey. But long before the fire burned, Kemal and Halide had parted. She divorced him when he proposed to take a second wife under the old polygamous law of Turkey. Paradoxically he turned to this same old law when he wished to divorce his second wife, and accomplished the deed simply by repeating three times the traditional formula: "I divorce you." Shortly thereafter the new Turkish code, containing Occidentally stringent divorce laws, came into effect...
...successful revivals, and presentations of important new plays. But while New York lias sat at a feast of dramatic good things, Boston has had lean fare. The Repertory Theater here is but a shade of what it might have been. Henry Jewett's company struggled valiantly but some spark of public interest or box office magnetism was lacking, and so Boston's theaters must depend consistently on what New York may send them. The times are ripe for some pioneer to do for Boston what the Guild, the Civic Repertory, and Mr. Hampden have done for New York...